CVE-2022-49350

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El acceso a un s\u00edmbolo liberado puede terminar con un p\u00e1nico del kernel. modpost sol\u00eda detectarlo, pero ha estado roto durante una d\u00e9cada. Recientemente, arregl\u00e9 modpost para que comenzara a advertirlo nuevamente, luego apareci\u00f3 en las compilaciones de linux-next. Hay dos formas de solucionarlo: - Eliminar __init - Eliminar EXPORT_SYMBOL Eleg\u00ed la \u00faltima para este caso porque el \u00fanico sitio de llamada en el \u00e1rbol, drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c nunca se compila como modular. 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